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600 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 3
ples of the unknown west of Europe. The term was rather geographical than racial. The Romans, though they had been brought into contact with the barbarians of the north by war and commerce for many centuries, made no distinction, before Caesar's time, between German and Gaul. The Phoenicians, those pioneer traders and intrepid sailors of antiquity, had had commercial dealings with the Gauls at a very remote period. Several centuries later, but still at an early date (about B. C. 600), the Greeks had made a settlement near the mouth of the Rhone, which afterwards grew into the prosperous city of Massilia (Marseilles), and opened up some trade routes into the interior. Both Phoenicians and Greeks found the most powerful part of the Celts already well established in western Europe, and showing evidence of previous possession for a period going back of any assignable date. The Celts had been for centuries a migratory and always a warlike people. These cha
58 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 3
Gaul and the Gauls. I. THE GALLIC PROVINCE. The district upon whose government Caesar entered in the spring of B. C. 58 consisted primarily of the two Gallic provinces, Cisalpine and Transalpine. Cisalpine Gaul was the northern portion of Italy, which several centuries earlier had been occupied by invaders from Gaul proper, and was not yet reckoned politically as a part of Italy; it was a wealthy, populous, and orderly country, the proconsul's main dependence for troops and supplies, and his regular winter residence. Transalpine or Narbonnese Gaul received its name from its capital, the Roman colony Narbo. It contained some thriving cities and peaceful districts; but as a whole it had been but recently brought under the authority of Rome, and was still essentially a foreign country. It comprised the whole coast of the Mediterranean from the Pyrenees to the Alps, having for its northern boundary an irregular and uncertain line, which separated the terr
102 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 3
t Paul wrote his well-known epistle. What knowledge the Greeks and Romans had of this powerful nation of barbarians was extremely vague. They had long hung like a dark storm-cloud on the northern frontier of both countries, and at intervals poured forth in overwhelming and destructive numbers. Once they spread desolation and dismay through Greece, and all but succeeded in plundering the rich temple of Delphi. In B. C. 390 Rome was destroyed by these same barbarians, and in B. C. 102 it was only the military genius of C. Marius that spared Italy a similar visitation. Long before the time of Caesar, the Romans had succeeded in subduing the Gauls south of the Alps, making the prosperous and orderly province of Cisalpine Gaul, as related above. Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum were more recent additions to the empire, and were less thoroughly subdued and civilized. They had been finally conquered by Q. Fabius Allobrogicus. All to the north had as yet been u
60 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 1
sighted, and truthful, Caesar gives us such insight into these nations as serves to explain many of their present political and social peculiarities. Important Events in Caesar's Life. B.C. 100Born, July 12th. 83Marries Cornelia, the Daughter of Cinna. 80-78Serves with the Army in Asia. 76-75Studies Oratory at Rhodes. 68Quaestor. 65Aedile. 63Pontifex Maximus. 62Praetor. 61Propraetor in Spain. 60Forms the First Triumvirate. 59Consul. 58-49Proconsul in Gaul. 56Meeting of the Triumvirate at Luca. 50The Trouble with Pompey begins. 49Crosses the Rubicon. Civil War begun. 48The Battle of Pharsalia. 46The Battle of Thapsus. Declared Dictator for ten years. 45The Battle of Munda. Appointed Imperator for life. 44The Conspiracy. Assassinated in the Senate House on the Ides of March.
44 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 1
ancestor, Brutus the first consul, who expelled the Tarquins. Caesar received many warnings of what was going on, but disregarded them all with his usual indifference to danger. The deed was consummated in the senate-house on the Ides of March, B. C. 44. The great dictator was struck down by false friends and fell, pierced with wounds, at the foot of Pompey's statue. This dastardly act received the condemnation it deserved, and few have dared to defend it on the ground of patriotism. Those conc 60Forms the First Triumvirate. 59Consul. 58-49Proconsul in Gaul. 56Meeting of the Triumvirate at Luca. 50The Trouble with Pompey begins. 49Crosses the Rubicon. Civil War begun. 48The Battle of Pharsalia. 46The Battle of Thapsus. Declared Dictator for ten years. 45The Battle of Munda. Appointed Imperator for life. 44The Conspiracy. Assassinated in the Senate House on the Ides of March.
86 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 1
he responsibility for his education and bringing up rested upon his mother, Aurelia. She was a typical matron of the old school, managing her house with simplicity and frugality, and holding to the traditions and virtues of the ancient Romans. Tacitus, the Roman historian, couples her name with that of Cornelia, the famous mother of the Gracchi. Caesar owed much of his future greatness to her influence, and his love and reverence for her are highly honorable to both. In the year 86, when Caesar was still a boy, he was appointed a priest of Jupiter. This office was a perfunctory one and had little real religious significance. In 83 he married Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna, an act which identified him thus early with the Populares; for Cinna was a very prominent leader of that party. It was soon after this that Sulla, the leader of theOptimates, returned from Asia Minor with a victorious army, prepared to take a terrible revenge for the proscription of Marius. Caesar soo
68 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 1
re he hastily collected a few ships and made a descent on the pirates before they dreamt of danger. He recovered the ransom money and punished the pirates as he had threatened. On his return to Rome, he began his political career (B. C. 68) by serving as quaestor, an office connected with the public treasury and the first step toward the consulship. This was followed in 65 by the aedileship. The taking of this office, which was one of the chief magistracies, though it involved onlarities. Important Events in Caesar's Life. B.C. 100Born, July 12th. 83Marries Cornelia, the Daughter of Cinna. 80-78Serves with the Army in Asia. 76-75Studies Oratory at Rhodes. 68Quaestor. 65Aedile. 63Pontifex Maximus. 62Praetor. 61Propraetor in Spain. 60Forms the First Triumvirate. 59Consul. 58-49Proconsul in Gaul. 56Meeting of the Triumvirate at Luca.
90 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 1
s, which foreign competition had made unprofitable, they flocked to Rome to swell the idle mob that lived on what their votes would bring. There still remained, especially in Northern Italy, a considerable body of small land owners; and the municipal towns (municipia), about four hundred in number, whose territories comprised, politically speaking, the whole area of Italy, were still the home of a fairly prosperous middle class. These had all received Roman citizenship after the social war (B. C. 90) and might, by their substantial character and intelligence, have served as a strong opposition to the corrupt aristocracy at Rome; but they lacked organization and leadership, and when they went to Rome to vote, they were wholly powerless against the turbulent political clubs of the metropolis, whose violence was a regular feature of all public proceedings. Yet in this class alone was the oldRoman virtue to be found, and in it lay whatever hope there was to redeem the state.
100 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 1
esar. Caesar's Earlier Career. Better be first, he said, in a little Iberian village, Than be second in Rome. Longfellow. Caius Julius Caesar (Gaius Iulius Caesar) was born July 12th, B. C. 100, or, according to some authorities, two years earlier. Assuming the later date, he was six years younger than Pompey, his great rival, and Cicero, the distinguished orator. His ancestry was of the noblest, and was supposed to reach back on his history. Active, keen-sighted, and truthful, Caesar gives us such insight into these nations as serves to explain many of their present political and social peculiarities. Important Events in Caesar's Life. B.C. 100Born, July 12th. 83Marries Cornelia, the Daughter of Cinna. 80-78Serves with the Army in Asia. 76-75Studies Oratory at Rhodes. 68Quaestor. 65Aedile. 63Pontifex Maximus. 62Praetor. 61
59 BC (search for this): text intro, chapter 1
sighted, and truthful, Caesar gives us such insight into these nations as serves to explain many of their present political and social peculiarities. Important Events in Caesar's Life. B.C. 100Born, July 12th. 83Marries Cornelia, the Daughter of Cinna. 80-78Serves with the Army in Asia. 76-75Studies Oratory at Rhodes. 68Quaestor. 65Aedile. 63Pontifex Maximus. 62Praetor. 61Propraetor in Spain. 60Forms the First Triumvirate. 59Consul. 58-49Proconsul in Gaul. 56Meeting of the Triumvirate at Luca. 50The Trouble with Pompey begins. 49Crosses the Rubicon. Civil War begun. 48The Battle of Pharsalia. 46The Battle of Thapsus. Declared Dictator for ten years. 45The Battle of Munda. Appointed Imperator for life. 44The Conspiracy. Assassinated in the Senate House on the Ides of March.
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